[T1S1] birth in Hill District of Pittsburgh; father owner of small grocery 28th Street and Liberty Avenue in 1912; father's death; mother's remarriage; family background and history of Hill District; grandparents, Russian immigrants; family move to Homestead, PA in 1913; opens grocery store; recollections of immigrant workers at Homestead Steel, working in the grocery store, and starting school at Homestead Grade School; religious education; selling newspapers on Eighth Street; employment of brothers; move to Forsythe Street in Hill District; Jewish congregations in the Hill District; recollections of Vine and Reed Grocery Street; school on Fifth Avenue; recollections of commencement for his graduating class of 1924; president of senior class; ;
